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Romeo and Juliet
Act 1, scene 4
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Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO. BENVOLIO. with five or six other MASKERS and TORCHBEARERS
ROMEO
What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? Or shall we on without apology?
BENVOLIO
The date is out of such prolixity.
We'll have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf, Bearing a Tartar's painted bow oflath,
Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper,
Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke After the prompter for our entrance.
But let them measure us by what they will. We'll measure them a measure and be gone.
ROMEO
Give me a torch. I am not for this ambling. Being but heavy, I will bear the light.
MERCUTIO
Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.
ROMEO
Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes With nimble sales. I have a soul oElead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
MERCUTIO
You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
And soar with them above a common bound.
ROMEO
I am too sore enpierced with his shaft
To soar with his light feathers, and so bound, I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. Under love's heavy burden do I sink.